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The Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Scribner; Mobbs, Michael (2012). Sustainable Food Sydney: NewSouth Publishing, ISBN 978-1-920705-54-1; Nestle, Marion (2007). Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health, University Presses of California, revised and expanded edition, ISBN 0-520-25403-1; The Future of Food (2015).
Agriculture deals with the production of food crops, and has played a key role in the history of world civilizations. Agriculture includes agronomy for arable crops, horticulture for vegetables and fruit, and forestry for timber. [3] About 7,000 species of plant have been used for food, though most of today's food is derived from only 30 species.
While many plants have been used for food, a small number of staple crops including wheat, rice, and maize provide most of the food in the world today. In turn, animals provide much of the meat eaten by the human population, whether farmed or hunted, and until the arrival of mechanised transport, terrestrial mammals provided a large part of the ...
Dips – Dip or dipping sauce is a common condiment for many types of food. Dips are used to add flavor or texture to a food. List of common dips; Paste – Food paste is a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation or eaten directly as a spread. [23] Pastes are often highly spicy or aromatic. List of ...
[136] [137] The World Food Summit in 1996 declared that "food should not be used as an instrument for political and economic pressure." [138] [139] There are many causes of food insecurity. The most important ones are high food prices and disruptions in global food supplies for example due to war.
Many processes designed to preserve food involve more than one food preservation method. Preserving fruit by turning it into jam, for example, involves boiling (to reduce the fruit's moisture content and to kill bacteria, etc.), sugaring (to prevent their re-growth) and sealing within an airtight jar (to prevent recontamination).
Many fruits provide natural dyes (e.g., cherry, mulberry, sumac, and walnut). [59] Dried gourds are used as bird houses, cups, decorations, dishes, musical instruments, and water jugs. Pumpkins are carved into Jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween. [60] The fibrous core of the mature and dry Luffa fruit is used as a sponge. [61]